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Word: girdle
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Meaning:
Noun:
- A belt; especially, a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery.
- A thin bed or stratum of stone.
- That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference
- The clitellum of an earthworm.
- The line of greatest brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.
- The zodiac; also, the equator.
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Verb:
- transitive To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.
- transitive To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark.
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